Stakeholders' Perspective on Ecological Modeling in Environmental Risk Assessment of Pesticides: Challenges and Opportunities

Risk Analysis

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 68-79

  Hunka, Agnieszka D ^a   Meli, Mattia ^a   Thit, Amalie ^a   Palmqvist, Annemette ^a   Thorbek, Pernille ^b   Forbes, Valery E ^c  

^a ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b JEALOTT S HILL INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecological models; Population models; Risk assessment; Stakeholder views

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX TESTING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOLOGICAL MODELS; EFFECT MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK ASSESSMENT; EXPECTED EFFECTS; FIELD MONITORING; MECHANISTIC EFFECTS; MITIGATION MEASURES; POPULATION MODEL; POPULATION MODELING; REGULATORY AUTHORITIES; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS; STAKEHOLDER GROUPS; STAKEHOLDER VIEWS;

ECOLOGY; IMPORTANCE SAMPLING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PESTICIDE EFFECTS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

PESTICIDE;

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; INTEGRATED APPROACH; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; POPULATION MODELING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING; STAKEHOLDER;

ARTICLE; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EUROPE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; EUROPE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PESTICIDES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EUROPE;

EID: 84872421371     PISSN: 02724332     EISSN: 15396924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1539-6924.2012.01835.x     Document Type: Article

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